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n-hen Today's Editorials on Page 6 Twisted Nazi Thinking Neighbors Getting Along-By Arithmetic Perishabl Goods. IUI 16 PAGES THREE CENTS SIXTIETH YEAR DECATUR, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1941 ULf War News 8 Hours Ahead Decatur clocks show 5 a. it 1s i in London. Berlin. Rome, An-ta-a Turkev.

and Cairo. Egypt: 2 p. m. in Moscow; 6 p. m.

in Singapore; and I p. m. in Tokyo. DECATUR E.RALD ft fear nnrrn on (MARKETING CHIEF RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ACCEPTS BRITISH TANK FOR SOVIETS Pink Star, Former Danish Vessel, Lost Washington. D.

C. (AP) Thp sinkine of an American- Hull Urges Repeal of Neutrality Act Washington. D. C. (AP) While President Roosevelt con- Wis v.

4 rl Zk Nazis See Aid Shut Off From Reds in Vest Berlin. Germany (AP) The Germans reported the entrapment of major Russian fleet units about Leningrad and heavy damase to Soviet squadron; in the Black sea yesterday and claimed to liHve virtually sealed all the Soviet Union's Europe in ports against effective aid from Britain and the Vmted States. In ti arand campaign to destroy the Russian armies and Russian -ar industries, the Nazi sources claimed 'he annihilation of about 30 Red divisions perhaps numbering as many as 450.000 men in the encircled area east of the fallen Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Report Red Supply Shortage O'f news was lacking of the progress of the major offensive in me South toward Kharkov, but that the German columns were striking rearer toward Kharkov, the principal city of that great productive rosion. was strongly indicated by a ef discussion in Berlin on its value as one of the surviving reservoirs of Russian industry.

The theme of Soviet shortage in ar equipment ran strongly through German accounts of the progress of the war. Much more important than the progressive capture of thousands of Red prisoners, it wiis stated, was that vast quantities of Russian supplies were being seized and destroyed. Replacement Too Slow Replacements. Germans declared, could come only from Britain or the United States and it was asserted that they could not come fast nwuah or heavily enough. Sharply emphasized was the heaviest offensive action against the Soviet navy to be reported since the struggle began in the East.

Fieeing Soviet Ships Shelled Russian warships trying to flee from the island naval base of Krnnstadt near Leningrad a base declared long since to have been silenced were said by authorized sources to have been shelled and forced to turn back by German batteries on the Baltic coast. A cruiser and a destroyer, it was declared, were hit and forced to turn about. Far removed from all this, but Intimately connected in German l.ratesy. was a series of submarine attacks on British commerce in the Atlantic which were said to have sunk 13 ships, including four tankers. a total tonnage of 83.500.

Leningrad, Odessa Hold Firm, Moscow Claims Moscow. Russia Tuesday (AP) Pledged to fight to the death. Red troops and hastily recruited civilians were reported today holding firm outside Leningrad and Odessa as British and United States delegations arrived in Russia to speed aims and supplies in the fight Sainst Germany. The early morning Soviet infor-rnaiion bureau communique made no mention of the Kiev area where German troops had broken through Russian defenses to capture the Ukrainian capital, nor of Leningrad or Odessa. 6 Nazi Battalions Wiped Out But it said nearly six German battpl ons had been wiped out on the Western front at undesignated sectors, that heavy losses were inflicted on Rumanian forces in the Somh.

and that fighting continued 11 along the vast front. Dispatches from those beleaguered cities, however, told of a thus far unyielding Red defense while correspondents visiting the central sector reported the Russians had thrown the Germans back to within "4 miles of Smolensk. "Win or Die" Leningrad's defenders were exported to "win or die" in the violent "rusele raging about that second lsrgpst Russian city. A n'w edict further strengthened Moscow for resistance, its city council forbidding the return of evacuees who left after tha war began nrj issuing orders that those who do be denied food ration cards. l) Ivan M.

Maisky. Russian am- bassador to England, addressed Missing Bomber Found Wrecked Tacoma, Wash. (AP) Wreckage of a twin-motored bomber, in which six men vanished before dawn 13 days ago. was sighted today on a rugged Olympic peninsula peak, and a few-hours later a training plane that had been engaged in the far-flung search for the bomber crashed with two more airmen. The two men in the training! plane miraculously escaped seri ous injury.

Col. William H. Crom. McChord field commander said, when their ship struck treetops of a peak near Morton. Wash.

The- trees cushioned the crash enough to save the men. although the plane was almost demolished The wrecked bomber was located by two searching airplanes. Colonel Crom said, scattered over a wide area a few hundred feet from the top of 7.700-foot Mount Constance. He said it evidently exploded and burned when it crashed. The aerial observers fl3w low over the area and were able to identify the tail assembly, intact in a ravine.

Other parts of the plane were strewn over a rocky area and in the few trees at that altitude. Colonel Crom said the ff-18 bomber evidently struck near the top. and the pieces were thrown or skidded down the slope. Japs May Strike If Nazis Win Shanghai. China (Tuesday) AP) Japan is rushing masses of additional troops to Manchukuo as a result of mounting confidence in Tokyo over German victories against the Red army.

foreign military observers reported today. i CrV if owned freighter in waters off Ice land, where" United stales warships are patrolling with orders to "shoot first." was reported yesterday by the State department. The latest loss was the steam-shio Pink Star, a former Danish merchantman taken over by the Maritime commission in July and placed under Panamanian regis try. It wac tho first such sinking since President Roosevelt promul gated his shoot-on-signt poncy applying to Axis war vessels. Sailed Sept.

3 The Pink Star sailed from New York Sept. 3 with a general and was sunk Sept. 19 only 45 miles from where the steamship Sessa was torpedoed Aug. 17. The Sessa.

which also flew the flag of Panama, was carrying supplies to Iceland. The Pink Star was enroute to a United Kingdom port by way of Iceland. The official announcement on the Pink Star did not disclose the manner of the sinking or the fate of the crew of 34. There were no Americans aboard, the crew consisting of eight Canadians, eight Dutchmen, six Britons, three Belgians, three Chinese, arid one Pole, one Frenchman, one Portuguese, one Irishman, one Dane and one Ecuadorian. Held Panamanian Registry (The Neutrality act forbids American citizens and American flae vessels from sailing into combat zones.

Transfer of the American-owned Pink Star to Panamanian registry and signing of an alien crew permitted the vessel to be used in carrying supplies to Britain). The Pink Star was named the Lundby when she plied the Pacific before the war. She was 357 feet long, of 6.850 tons dead weight and was built in 1926. The official text to the State department announcement follows: "The State department -has been informed by the Navy department that the United States government owned S. S.

Pink Star was sunk on Sept. 19 at latitude 61 degrees, 36 minutes north, longitude 35 degrees. 07 minutes west. She sailed from New York Sept. 3 with a general cargo.

The reported position at which the Pink Star sunk is approximately 45 miles northwest of the position of the Sessa sinking. Requisitioned July 12 "The nationalities of the crew of 34 are as follows: "One Danish, six British, eight Canadian, three Belgian, eight Dutch, one Polish, one French, one Portuguese, one Irish, three Chinese, one Ecuadorian. "The Pink Star (ex Danish ship Lundby) was requisitioned by the United States Maritime commission on July 12. 1941 and placed under Panamanian registry. She was chartered by the Maritime commission to the United States Lines.

The vessel was built in 1926 and was of 6,850 tons dead She is at least the fifth American-owned merchant ship to be sunk since the war began. The others known to be sunk are: The City of Rayville, which went down in November. 1940, off Australia after striking a mine. One life was lost. The Robin Moor, torpedoed May 21 in the South Atlantic.

Crew and Turn to Page 13 "Ship Sunk" THE WEATHER FORECAST FOR ILLINOIS Fair and cooler Tuesday; Wednesday increasing cloudiness. LOCAL WEATHER Mon. Sun. Mon. Sun.

7 a. m. 58 63 Precip. Noon 89 91 Tues. Mon.

7 p. m. 70 71 Sun: Highest 90 93 Rises 5:48 5:47 Lowest 56 59 Sets 5:55 5:57 TEMPERATURES jferred with advisers on ways of accelerating American assistance to nations fighting the Axis. Secretary of State Cordell Hull indicated yesterday that he thought the time had come to lift restrictions of the Neutrality act. Already modified by the repeal, in 1939.

of its rigid embargo on sale of arms to belligerents, the act still forbids the arming of merchant ships, prohibits them from sailing into combat zi.nes. and requires belligerents to take title to implements of war obtained in the United States before such implements are shipped. Roosevelt Meets Leaders Hull declined to venture any prediction as to whether Congress soon would repeal or. modify the act. But at the same time he commented at his press conference that both he and President Roose velt had criticized the Neutrality act from the start as a measure more likely to get this country into war than to keep it out.

President Roosevelt soon after returning from a weekend visit to Hyde Park, N. held a conference at the White House with Vice President Wallace, Speaker a y-burn. House Majority Leader Mc-Cormack of Massachusetts. Chairman Cannon (D-Mot of the House appropriations committee: Representative Woodrum ID-Va), also a member of the House appropriations committee; Chairman Con-nally (D-Texas) of the Senate foreign relations committee, and Senator McKellar (D-Tenn), ranking Democrat on the Senate appropriations committee. To Speed Lease-Lend i Their talk dealt principally, the conferees said, with the new 5.983 million dollar lend-lease appropri-I ation, and proposed price control legislation.

McCormack said Mr. Roosevelt advised that the lend-lease measure would reach the House in i about two weeks. It could be sent to the floor earlier, he added, but it been decided to include cer tain additional appropriation items for defense and a week of hearings of these is expected. As for the price-fixing legislation. Rayburn said that everyone at the meeting had agreed it ought to be passed as quickly as possible Speedboats Raid Harbor at 'Rock' Rome, Italy (AP) A force of Italy's secret, little assault boats skittered into the innermost part of Gibraltar harbor Saturday night, sidestepping or crossing a formidable web of defenses, and at the very base of the gun-studded rock blasted three British supply ships to the bottom land damaged a fourth so that it was probably lost, the Italian high command reported yesterday.

For Italians it was another story jof suicidal daring by the steel-nerved young men specially trained to handle these secret weapons be-; lieved to be little more than man-I carrying torpedoes. The brief i communique did not say what fate befell the attackers. Tanker, Steamer Sunk "Assault units of the Italian marine entered the bay and inner port of Gibraltar harbor, sank one tanker of 10.000 tons, another of 600 tons and one steamer of 6.000 tons, loaded with and seriously hit a steamer of 12.000 tons loaded with war material," the announcement said. "This steamer hit against rocks where it was stranded and therefore can be considered lost." London Declines Comment 'London authorities, still to give their account of the raid, met the Italian claim yesterday with "absolutely no comment." In the Malta attack the British claimed that not a single one of those riding the small boats escaped to tell the story.) British Sink Two Big Italian Liners London, England fAP) Smashing British submarine and air bomber attacks on Axis shipping in the Central Mediterranean were declared officially last night to have destroyed two oig liners in a strongly guarded convoy, blown up a smaller ship and resulted in the damaging or sinking of three more vessels. -3 the workers at a British tank factory as the first British- Arrest Pana Alderman on Traffic Charge Pana (Staff) Members of the city council last night considered the case of Alderman William Goodwin, who they allege not only violated Pana's parking ordinance, but tore up the traffic ticket as well.

After Chairman Gus Schmidt read the report of his police committee on the affair, the group requested Goodwin to apologize for his alleged misconduct. "I don't apologize to anyone." the fourth ward nlderman replied. Whereupon, the group voted on a motion to bring charges against Alderman Goodwin. The vote, which included Goodwin's, was unanimous. Following the council meeting.

Officer Charles Bertin, who had handed Goodwin his ticket, made complaint to Police Magistrate J. W. Jones. Magistrate Jones then issued a state warrant against Good-'win, charging him with parking his automobile within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection. Since it was a state charge.

Deputy Sheriff Harry McGarvic arrested the aldermen, who upon arraignment before Jones gave $200 bond signed by Alderman Frank Bertin, uncle of the complainant. Hearing was set for Saturday. Lindbergh to Speak At Fort Wayne Oct. 3 Chicago (AP) National headquarters of the America First Committee announced yesterday that Charles A. Lindbergh had cancelled a broadcast scheduled for Saturday over the Columbia Broadcasting System from Washington in favor of a speech before a committee sponsored rally in Fort Wayne, Oct.

3: "Colonel Lindbergh doesn't want to make two speeches so close together." a spokesman said. the army, and I got more lessons while lying in prison for 17 years. I thought of nothing but to kill some one. I once was goin to kill a man named Joe, and also my brother-in-law. I planned once to kill you.

Captain Gill. "I'm very sorry that I had to kill the woman I did. but I was going to kill the first person I saw, and it just happened to be her." Gill said Cohen went to the woman's apartment to get a pistol he knew her son had. When she refused to give it to him. the officer said, Cohen killed her and ransacked her apartment.

Gill served 17 years in Joliet penitentiary following a grand larceny conviction. Washington Looking over reports and letters at his desk yesterday was Roy F. Hend-rickson. new surplus marketing administrator. He was formerly director of personnel in the Department of Agriculture.

(AP WIREPHOTO) Wiilkie Blamed For Racial Tag On America First New York (AP) 'Sen. Gerald P. Nye R-N. last night accused Wendell L. Wiilkie and interventionists of "dragging into this war controversy that cheap.

wholly un-American issue called anti-semitism." Speaking before an American First Committee rally in Brooklyn guarded by 423 policemen, the isolationist senator said in his prepared speech that "this attempt to paint the cause of non-intervention as an anti-semitic cause has been about the meanest, smallest, ratlike thing that I have ever ex perienced in my contact with American politics." Wiilkie Blamed 'No one has contributed to the dragging of this red-herring into this controversy so largely as has one Wendell Wiilkie the 'me too' man of the 1940 Presidential campaign the man who helped arrange things so that there could be no chance in that Presidential campaign for the American people to voice themselves clearly and openly in this issue of intervention," Nye said. "Mr. Wiilkie has done his utmost to smear the cause of non-intervention with this anti-semitic stick. "Racial prejudice has brought to Europe consequences we cannot escape seeing. If we are going to adopt racial prejudice in our American thinking and planning we only contribute to the bringing of that experience, which has befallen others, to our own country.

Lindbergh Not Anti-Semitic "The interventionists are doing the gravest kind of injustice to their country and especially to those of the Jewish faith when they persist in dragging this red-herring into the controversy. First, with a view to blinding people to the real issues and challenges confronting us today and second, with a view to dividing and breaking up the non-intervention front." Nye said he knew by reason of close and intimate contact that "there is not a shred of anti-semitic spirit in the mind and heart of Charles A. Lindbergh or of Sen. Burton K. Wheeler." "As for myself." Nye added, "no one can better testify to a record Please turn to Pate 13 "Wiilkie" Fear Sterner Nazi Reprisals Vichy, Unoccupied France AP The slaying of a German captain latest victim in a series of outbreak in once gay Paris intensified fears last night that the Germany army might step far beyond the retaliatory execution of hostages to avenge and stamp out the repeated attacks.

The Paris press revealed yesterday that the officer. Captain Sche-ben, was shot last Tuesday. Over his bier, at services Sunday in fashionable Madeleine church in the heart of the old French capital, a vow was delivered in the name of the German army to "employ every means, that these attacks. shall not go unpunished." Authoritative sources at Bern. Switzerland, reported that some elements in Vichy feared all France might be occupied by the Germans if shootings and sabotage continued in the present occupied zone.) made tank for Russia (back- ground) rolled off the assembly Trade Experts Land at Moscow London, England AP) The arrival by plane of the United States and British delegations to a three power conference with the Soviet government was announced last night by the Moscow radio.

Lord Beaverbrook, head of the British group, had gone to the Russian capital in advance but W. Averell Harriman. leader of the American delegation, presumably went with the others. They made the flight as British workers in blacked-out midlands tank factories raced for record production during this week when every tank, manufactured in Britain will be shipped at onqe to the Russian front to bolster the Red army's grim stand. A spokesman for the Ministry of Supply declared there was every indication the factories would set records in tanks and parts for what the British called "Russian Reds Executed In Bulgaria Bern.

Switzerland 'AP The execution of an unstated number of Communist members of the Bulgarian parliament and the sending of 120 Communists to German concentration carAps as hostages for sabotage were reported last night in Sofia dispatches. Legislators of the former peasant party were vilso reported interned speculation turned on whether the state of martial law proclaimed in Bulgaria over the weekend meant that country was preparing to enter the war against Russia Some close observers felt recent German victories might be the deciding factor in bringing Bulgaria into war or at least into joining diplomatic pressure upon Turkey to side with the Axis. Blackout Restrictions Relaxed in Moscow Moscow, Russia AP) Blackout restrictions for Moscow- were relaxed, effective last night, to permit the capital's squares and principal thoroughfares to be light ed. except during air-raids. There was no explanation of the new order.

Heretofore the city has been without light nightly. Consul Joins Free French New York AP) The Free French delegation announced yesterday that' Francois H. Charles-Roux, French deputy consul in New York City, had sent his resignation to the Vichy government and would join the Free French forces. line yesterday, (AP WIREPHOTO) Fidler Seeks Complaint Against Flynn Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP) Jimmie Fidler, movie gossip writer and commentator, appeared before Justice of the Peace Cecil D.

Holland yesterday, seeking unsuccessfully a complaint against Actor Errol Flynn, his opponent in a night club tiff early Sunday. Judge Holland declined to issue a complaint until he had discussed the matter with Flynn. The actor's attorneys agreed to bring him in for a conference Thursday. "I want Flynn forced to keep the peace, idler said. 1 want vindi cation of my right to sit at a table without being attacked.

Flynn has threatened me before, and I don't want to be punched again. "I'm not afraid of him. even though he's younger and heavier and taller than I am. But I make my living with my mouth and if he should punch me so hard I couldn't talk, it would cost me thousands of dollars. "It is ungentlemanly of Flynn to say that my wife stabbed him in the ear with a fork.

She didn't use a fork, she used her fingernails. I'm proud of her." Flynn had little to add to his previous accounts of the disturbance. He said a bleeding ear, his only mark of the combat, was the work of Mrs. Fidler an accusation she denied. Nazis Prepare Black Sea Drive Ankara.

Turkey AP) Sofia was under a partial curfew last night during a state of emergency, and information direct from the Bulgarian capital said Germany was increasing her troop concentrations prior to a Black sea thrust against Russia. Varna and Burgas. Bulgarian ports, were blacked out completely. Newspapers played down the state of emergency, this responsible source in Sofia said. But he told of military trials, and expected a full curfew shortly in the capital.

"No Fleet Will Pass Through Dardanelles" Bern. Switzerland (AP) The Ankara radio broadcast statement by the highly-placed Turkish newspaper Akshan yesterday that "under no pretext will any fieet pass through the (Dardanellei Straits." This broadcast, coming as it did from the government-controlled Turkish station, indicated the Turks would turn down any request by Bulgaria to transfer former Italian warships to the Black sea for use against Soviet Russia. Ex-Convict Kills Woman, 58; Reason: First Person He Saw High Low Boston 88 57 New York 82 5fi Miami 85 75 New Orleans 79 74 San Antonio 89 69 Chicago 89 65 Cincinnati 90 50 Detroit 62 Memphis 89 59 Milwaukee 86 64 Bismarck 57 41 Des Moines 80 60 Kansas City 85 66 St. Paul 61 53 Om3ha 79 61 St. Louis 87 56 Sioux City 66 56 Butte 57 23 Seattle 66 41 Winnipeg 60 35 Chicago (AP) A suicide note left by an ex -convict disclosed Monday that for 17 years he had thought of nothing except killing someone, and that he bludgeoned to death an elderly Chicago widow Saturday night because "I was going to kill the first person "I saw, and it just happened to be her." Police Capt.

Frank Gill said the former convict, Solly Cohen, 44, wrs found shot to death Monday in a West Madison street hotel room. Gill said he had been sought as the slayer of Mrs. Margaret Win-field. 53. Gill said Cohen left a' note saying: "I learned to kill while I was in Maritime Board Seeks To End Seamen's Strike New York APt An effort was made yesterday by the U.

S. Maritime commission to settle the 10-day-old seamen's strike which has tied up vessels in Atlantic and Gulf ports and which Jhe commission said had disrupted "shipping so vitally needed for national defense and all-out aid to democracies." In a telegram to all unions representing unlicensed personnel and operators. Chairman Emory S. Land offered to conduct conferences in an attempt to reach a of the walkout I.